ERG Helps County of Sonoma Develop Resilience Strategy

ERG recently supported the County of Sonoma, California, in developing its resilient lands strategy. This comprehensive strategy highlights the hazards facing the County and presents specific approaches and projects to build resilient lands at landscape, watershed, and ecoregion scales. To develop the strategy, ERG worked with County staff and stakeholder committees to identify methods and priority projects for mitigating impacts and strengthening resilience. Along with findings on vulnerabilities, consequences, and priority adaptation actions, the strategy includes a detailed framework that County agencies and their partners can use to help design and fund resilience projects that benefit tribes, under-resourced communities, small farm owners, and farm workers. The document also highlights recommendations on partnerships and engagement approaches the County and its partners can take to strengthen countywide resilience in the face of changing weather conditions.